A Classical Dictionary: Containing an Account of the Principal Proper Names Mentioned in Ancient Authors, and Intended to Elucidate All the Important Points Connected with the Geography, History, Biography, Mythology, and Fine Arts of the Greeks and Romans Together with an Account of Coins, Weights, and Measures, with Tabular Values of the Same

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Strona 415 Aryandes, the Persian governor of Egypt, under Cambyses, in imitation of the
Darics. He was put to death by Darius for his presumption. The coining of these
Darics or Aryandics in silver, however, must have been continued after the time of
...

Strona 588 Athens only rose to importance in the century preceding the Persian wars; but
even in this period her power was not more than a match for the little states of
Megaris and Ægina. The city was long harassed by intestine commotions till the
time ...

Strona 1009 Ammianus Marcellinus (19, 2), in the common text of his history, gives
Achaemenium as equivalent, in the Persian tongue, to “Rer regibus imperans;”
but Valois (Walesius) corrects the common reading by the substitution of
Saansaan, which ...

Strona 1013 He would seem, indeed, to have been the first monarch of Persia who, strictly
speaking, by the subjugation of Segistan, “reigned from India even to Ethiopia,
over a hundred and twenty seven provinces.” Persian historians assign to this
great ...

Strona 1014 the mention of which falls naturally under the present article, from the
circumstance of the Parthians being designated as Persians by many of the
Roman writers, particularly the poets, although they were, in fact, of Scythian
rather than Persian ...

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A Classical Dictionary: Containing an Account of the Principal Proper Names Mentioned in Ancient Authors, and Intended to Elucidate All the Important Points Connected with the Geography, History, Biography, Mythology, and Fine Arts of the Greeks and Romans Together with an Account of Coins ...